"Kalief Browder": One Packed Minute Exposes Three Years of Injustice

Kalief Browder was tragically failed by a system that was supposed to protect him. At 16, Browder was wrongfully accused of stealing a backpack in his Bronx, New York, neighborhood. He was sent to Rikers Island jail for three years without trial. Two of those years were spent in solitary confinement. In 2015, three years after his release, Browder committed suicide. He was 22. The questions about his confinement, why he languished in the system and why no one helped his family navigate it are explored in Spike TV's 2017 docuseries Time: The Kalief Browder Story, executive produced by Jay-Z

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